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Prokaryotes as a Source of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

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The regularities of the distribution of aliphatic and cyclic petroleum hydrocarbon biomarkers in different individual prokaryotes and their communities are considered. Individual bacteria (Arthrobacter sp. RV, Pseudomonas aeruginosa RM, Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis, individual bacteria isolated from the oil of the Daqing field in the People’s Republic of China (Geobacillus jurassicus and Shewanella putrefaciens), individual archaea (Thermoplasma sp.) and microbial communities isolated from the oil seep of the Oil Site of the Uzon volcano caldera (Kamchatka, Russia), and relics of cyanobacterial mats (CBM) isolated from the Lower Cambrian reservoir rocks of the Ichyodinskoye oil field (Eastern Siberia) have been studied. It is shown that the studied bacteria and archaea make different contributions to the formation of hydrocarbons–biomarkers of oil. In particular, it is proposed that the oil seep at the Oil Site of the Uzon volcano caldera (Kamchatka) and the Precambrian oil of the Ichyodinskoye oil field (Eastern Siberia) were formed from prokaryotes.

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Notes

  1. The bacteria were provided by T.N. Nazina, the Head of Laboratory of Petroleum Microbiology, Vinogradskii Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

  2. Samples were provided by Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences E.A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Head of the Department of Extremophiles Biology, Vinogradskii Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).

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We are grateful to Corresponding Member of the RAS E.A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Doctor of Biological Sciences T.N.  Nazina for providing us with prokaryote samples.

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Yusupova, A.A., Giruts, M.V. & Gordadze, G.N. Prokaryotes as a Source of Petroleum Hydrocarbons. Dokl. Earth Sc. 497, 211–216 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X21030132

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